Home Automation. It can be as simple as buying a hub and some devices. But, I went the self-hosted route using Home Assistant to give me more control of what it can do.

I have some automations that turn on a certain set of lights on when the sun sets and off when it rises. It's pretty simple, but saves electricity because I used to leave my front porch light on 24/7.

I just set up an automation last night that sends me a discord notification when the laundry machine finishes and the same for the dryer. I can't hear the beeping because I am always too far from the laundry room. This one has me so excited!

I've seen people automate gardens which seems really neat. Really, your only limit is your imagination. I also just really like having an app on my phone to toggle power to random lights and fans around my house. It helps me get out of bed because I can turn the fan off when I'm cold in bed.

If only they supported Linux better, or really like at all... I know you can grab the files and install without DRM. But, the whole lack of a client makes it a nuisance to use. I used to buy everything on GOG when possible. Since I got a Steam Deck that's changed. I shouldn't have to use Heroic Launcher IMO..

Steaming services don't give it to you for free with the only ads being for the premium version of their service that you don't really need..

Lmao, it's a Rick roll on archive.org!

That handshake spoke a lot.

Hitler probably didn't kill many/any of the Jews himself either..

Is this an old meme? They revamped their UI and I think it's (Steam) very intuitive now. I do remember when they had like 10 different styles of drop-down box on the desktop app. But, I don't see that now.

Imagine saying all that and not linking it 😏

I got you fam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/846030/V_Rings_of_Saturn/

NixOS. Not in a good way. I love the idea of configuring your entire system with a configuration file. However, on my laptop I couldn't get the KDE live boot image to boot into the GUI. So, I tried the gnome live image, successfully, and used it to install KDE. I thought that I was in the clear but then sddm wasn't working. I had to disable it to get nixos to boot into KDE.

I mean, I fixed it. But, with an intel APU from 2014, I haven't had any problems with this laptop running Arch, Debian, Linux mint, or Fedora.

Do you have something against it? People hate on it like it's a fad or whatever. But, the people who like it, LOVE it.

Rust is the most admired language, more than 80% of developers that use it want to use it again next year. 

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#overview

Rust is on its seventh year as the most loved language with 87% of developers saying they want to continue using it.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#overview

8 years in a row. I can understand the perspective of someone who spent years honing their craft in C/C++ and not wanting to learn a new language. But, the Harassment of the "Rust in Linux Lead" is ridiculous. I'm not saying you are harassing. But, saying it's a tech bro thing is just negative and doesn't do justice to how many devs just like rust.

Its a fork of gitea. It formed when gitea did something that the community didn't like. I don't remember the reasoning. But, I remember someone sending me a bunch of info about it in the past and it was enough for me to switch.

I don't understand a single example you gave. I always call it Linux. But, what?

I think this went over my head..?

I could see that backfiring though..

Then you weren't in the r/self-hosting or r/piracy communities. It comes from the fact that it supports most codecs. So when you want to watch almost any movie on Plex, the server won't have to transcode.

Gitea is a fork of gogs. Forgejo is a forge of Gitea too. I would suggest/use Forgejo.

My wife got that same thing almost word for word. 🤔

Dns is what translates urls (google.com, lemmy.world, etc) into ip addresses (207.94.56.21) which your computer can actually understand. Dns can be used to track you but a good dns can also very slightly speed up your Internet because it gets you the address to websites a bit faster. I use adguard and have Cloudflare DNS upstream from that

You don't have to enter desktop mode to launch them. You have to enter desktop mode to install them and add them as a non-steam game to your steam library so that they'll show up in handheld mode.

True. Linux client is a must for me. Their Windows launcher is kinda crap too. It has so much focus on trying to get all your games in one launcher but it's not great as a launcher for any platform..

I like this as a possible explanation. In my experience however, it's been older people who do this. The generation that most likely wouldn't be watching these shows

Torx screws 4 lyfe

Iirc signal has something you can host for the communications of strangers.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking..

Source for this person being transphobic? I'm not saying you're wrong, I just don't know where this is coming from..

Because they should be able to make a launcher that works. The Windows GOG launcher (GOG Galaxy) is a joke. They want to make one launcher to rule them all but it struggles with almost every one. I have a Windows computer for games that require it (Valorant mostly for me) and even on PC I use Heroic. I don't want crazy features. I just want an officially supported GOG client that works well on Linux and Windows.

Fallout 3. I never made it out of the vault on my first play. It's long and slow. I played at a friend's house who was past that point and realized I needed to try again. I'll never regret giving it another try!

Woah, I can't wait to never afford that!

https://www.bobble.tech/free-stuff/used-thinkpad-buyers-guide

I think it's a lot more intimidating than it is actually hard. You could get a Raspberry Pi, Alternative, or a Home Assistant Yellow. Then there guides that can get you going in minutes. It's actually a pretty good time with the latest update introducing better onboarding.

I am not trying to convince you. But, I don't want to see anyone scared out either.

You can feel however which way you want. But, comparing it to paid services isn't fair..

That's sick! I'll try it on my Steam Deck!

Edit: ran great. Controls weren't ideal. I had to use a mouse in the menus.

This looks pretty cool. I haven't used OpenWRT in years. Does it support mesh or adding another access point somehow?

Either way, I'm happy with my current OPNSense/unifi setup.

2.0 seems to be closing the gap towards Discord more. Which I like.

I feel this. But, in a lot of jobs you have someone forcing you to do art the way they had envisioned lol

Sheeeeeeeeeesh

Blue Steel.

To my understanding role players are really what's keeping it alive. I imagine they don't want to piss them off.

Weird, but I found it a super interesting read. It made me think of Home Assistant as one of the only software that I could think of that uses a toggle button from the top of my head. I think it handles these states wonderfully.

Edit: The big one I rarely see. But, either one seems quite intuitive.

It's about slime lol